Cianci, Philip J. <br/><br/>
HDTV and the transition to digital broadcasting :  understanding new television technologies / 
Philip J. Cianci. 
 - Amsterdam ;  Oxford :  Focal,  c2007. 
 - xxi, 216 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>The dawn of HDTV and digital television - A compressed history of HDTV - DTV fundamentals - The DTV receiver - HDTV and DTV standards - The transition to metadata - Emerging technologies and standards - The future and digital broadcasting. 
<br/><br/> The author points out that HDTV is not a simple replacement of analog TV, but a fundamentally different system. Audio and video are said to be 'more perfect' and there is 'a new content transport paradigm', since programs arrive at a DTV receiver as 'separate audio, video and data packets with assembly instructions'. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780240809045 (pbk.) :  £22.99 0240809041 (pbk.) :  £22.99 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007000824 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA708052  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>High definition television.<br/>Television broadcasting.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TK6679  / .C55 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>621.38806